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mountains of North Carolina during the last summer, made by 

 himself and his friends Messrs. John Carey and James Con- 

 stable. The article is in the form of a letter, addressed to 

 ,Sir W. J. Hooker, whose labors in the investigation of North 

 American plants have been of signal service to the science of 

 botany. 



From this paper it appears that the younger Bartram (Wil- 

 liam) was the first botanist who visited the southern portion of 

 the Alleghany Mountains. This was in 1773 — 76, when, after 

 travelling in Florida and the lower part of Georgia, he made 

 a transient visit to the Cherokee country. His well known 

 and very interesting volume of travels contains numerous ob- 

 servations upon the botany of these regions, with occaaional 

 popular descriptions, and, in a few cases, Latin characters of 

 some remarkable plants. 



The next botanist was Andre Michaux, who, at an early 

 period, and amid difficulties and great privations, explored 

 our country from Hudson's Bay to Florida, and westward to 

 the Mississipi, more extensively than any subsequent botan- 

 ist. Some (eAY of his plants have not yet been re-discovered, 

 and a considerable number remain among the rarest and least 

 known species in the United States. Dr. Gray having had 

 the opportunity of consulting the original journals of Michaux, 

 presented by his son to the American Philosophical Society, 

 gives an account of his peregrinations, particularly in the 

 mountain regions of North Carolina. From his journal, it 

 appears he left France in the L'Orient, in September of 1785, 

 and arrived in New York in November. He immediately es- 

 tablished two nurseries or gardens, one in New Jersey, and 

 the other about ten miles from Charleston, S. C. These 

 were intended to receive living plants as he discovered them, 

 from whence they were to be sent to France. In the garden 

 at the latter place, he introduced the Mimosa Julibrissin 

 (Jlckc'ia Julibrissin, Willd.) from Europe, and it was probably 

 from this stock that the tree has become extensively dissemi- 

 nated in the southern States, and is beginning to be naturalized 

 in many places. 



From 1787 to 1796, Michaux made repeated journeys to 

 the mountain regions of Carolina; he descended the Ohio to 

 Louisville, Ky., with the view of visiting the western States; 

 he explored East Florida; travelled as far north as Hudson's 

 Bay, and devoted part of a season to an examination of that 

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